Lesson: What Is Man?<br>
Reading: Belshazzar forgets that God holds his life 2020-02-26<br>
Reference: Daniel 5:17-30; (KJV)<br>
<br>Daniel 5:17-30<br><p class="p"><br><span data-number="17" class="v">17</span> Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation. <br><span data-number="18" class="v">18</span> O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: <br><span data-number="19" class="v">19</span> And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down. <br><span data-number="20" class="v">20</span> But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: <br><span data-number="21" class="v">21</span> And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling <span class="add">was</span> with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and <span class="add">that</span> he appointeth over it whomsoever he will. <br><span data-number="22" class="v">22</span> And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; <br><span data-number="23" class="v">23</span> But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath <span class="add">is</span>, and whose <span class="add">are</span> all thy ways, hast thou not glorified: <br><span data-number="24" class="v">24</span> Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.</p><p class="p"><br><span data-number="25" class="v">25</span> And this <span class="add">is</span> the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. <br><span data-number="26" class="v">26</span> This <span class="add">is</span> the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. <br><span data-number="27" class="v">27</span> TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. <br><span data-number="28" class="v">28</span> PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. <br><span data-number="29" class="v">29</span> Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and <span class="add">put</span> a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.</p><p class="p"><br><span data-number="30" class="v">30</span> In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. </p>
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